that will get you sued and sued good

there are also several defenses you can raise in court

to start with you could claim that the person consented

or agreed to the action that hurt them no matter what it might have been

it even counts as consent if they never come right out and tell you to do it

but they act in such a way that a reasonable person

would assume that they have consented

you can't claim the person consented if they were obviously

not capable of giving consent

there's a special exception now in many places where you can claim consent to

help an injured unconscious person

it's not clear why someone would sue the person

trying to help them but it happens

you can also get in trouble for doing more than the person consented to

unless there's some urgency that justifies it

while someone can give consent even if their consent is based on a mistake

the consent won't count if the mistake was caused by

or known by the person getting sued

a famous case of this was where a woman invited her doctor to her house

to help her give birth and the doctor brought some random dude

with him who wasn't a doctor

the woman said it was okay because the second guy was a doctor

and the actual doctor didn't correct her

so her consent didn't get him out being sued

consent also doesn't count if it's given under threats

another way to get out of being sued is to claim self-defense

you can harm someone and not get sued for it if you're using

reasonable force to keep someone from harming you

or from touching you in an offensive way

even if you're in a situation where force can be used for self-defense

that doesn't mean you can use as much force as you want to

the amount of force you use has to be reasonable

that means you can't use deadly force

unless you're being threatened with death or serious bodily harm

you can even use force in self-defense if you think you're in danger and

you're wrong as long as was reasonable think so

you are not however allowed to use force after the danger has passed

words by themselves almost never justify the use of force in self-defense

no matter how hurtful they are

you also can't use force in self-defense to avoid some distant future harm

you can use force to defend someone else without getting sued

provided they have the right to use force in their own defense

some places will let you off though if you help someone

who it turns out didn't deserve it

you can use force to defend property without being sued

as long as the force is reasonable

deadly force to preserve property is pretty much never reasonable

there's also the defense of necessity

it means when you're allowed to damage someone else's property

to keep something much worse from happening

not quite

better

moving on

necessity is nice because then you don't have to pay damages or go to court

if you cause damage to save the public or a large group of people

then you don't even have to pay for whatever damage you cause

if you only save yourself then you still have to pay for the damage you caused

though you won't be liable for anything extra like punitive damages

and there you have it